Reading books keeps a person s mind active whereas watching films and television is passive and does not require a person to use their imagination To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement

Essay topics:

Reading books keeps a person’s mind active, whereas watching films and television is passive and does not require a person to use their imagination.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

People often spend their leisure time, these days, doing different activities that include reading and watching . the former is a positive habit as it makes the reader sharp; however, sitting in front of the television and watching movies is considered as an inactive pastime. I completely agree with this viewpoint; this essay will discuss the above statement in detail.

To begin with, reading keeps the reader's brain totally active since it requires an individual, who reads, to be mentally present. For example, someone who is studying a book or an article ought to be focused on a text in order to fully understand it. Otherwise one will not be able to absorb it fully. According to psychological experts, the brain works more efficiently during the process of reading and understanding written texts. This is because it requires the information to be visualized and form links with the previous and current data. It is, therefore, clear that understanding written notes are accountable for dynamic mind behavior.

Seeing movies, on the other hand, is static because it can be executed without using thoughts. In other words, since watching TV involves visual scenes and audio tracks and every detail has already been concisely presented in it. For that reason, the viewer may not need to visualize the plot in his mind. Video plots are usually designed to cover all necessities of the viewer; thus, the watcher may not invariably feels the need to use his imagination. Recent research by Oxford University concluded that watching television has a detrimental effect on functionality of person's brain, which makes his focus difficult to maintain.

To sum up, reading is a brain activation process as it requires the reader to pay conscious attention. On the contrary, TV programs might not need the complete focus of the viewer to absorb the story. Thus, reading is a more active process that exercises the mind and encourages a stronger sense of imagination as compared to watching television.

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Average: 6 (3 votes)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, for example, in other words, on the contrary, to begin with, to sum up, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1681.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 327.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14067278287 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76984853399 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596330275229 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 522.9 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.8661582187 49.4020404114 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.8823529412 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2352941176 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.52941176471 7.06120827912 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199743555711 0.244688304435 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0550683637695 0.084324248473 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0404676673687 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112022291652 0.151304729494 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384379084408 0.056905535591 68% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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